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Commercial Finance Manager, FMCG, West London, 70k-80k DOE
Please note that this is a 14-month FTC cover, 3 days on site, 2 hybrid.
We have partnered with an industry leader in the catering and hospitality industry and service.
They are seeking a commercially astute Finance Manager to join their team on a 14-month fixed-term contract, providing maternity cover. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing all financial templates, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial data across the business. The role will involve overseeing capital expenditure (CAPEX) requests from the wider team and collaborating closely with GMs to develop and review business cases for each initiative.
Experience in the catering, hospitality, or FMCG industry is a must for this role.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
* Gain detailed understanding of key performance drivers of the business, pricing mechanisms, contracts, and competitive position within the UK & Ireland markets.
* Build a comprehensive toolbox of measures, ratios, and benchmarks (internal and external) to ensure rigor in our tender process.
* Conduct variance analysis of actuals vs. forecasts, investigating variances and communicating risks and opportunities.
* Develop and maintain weekly/monthly reporting tools to drive valuable business insights for decision-making.
* Support the development of effective monthly, quarterly, and yearly rolling forecast processes, including risk-adjusted forecasting.
* Perform post-tender implementation audits to ensure actual margin aligns with approved tender documentation.
* Responsible for month-end closing and reporting, ensuring revenue streams are correctly accounted for.
* Oversee daily, weekly, and monthly revenue reporting, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and understanding of variances.
* Work on projects to improve customer profitability.
* Oversight of the order-to-cash process.
* Agree with internal stakeholders and set clear objectives/SLA’s related to reporting and analysis of revenue and profitability.
* Collaborate with commercial, procurement, operations, and the rest of the finance team to identify revenue leakages and margin improvement opportunities.
* Work closely with commercial teams to build models and yardsticks for RFPs and critique proposals.
Qualifications
* Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA,ACCA) or Degree level.
* Min 3 years of extensive experience as a commercial finance manager in large FMCG companies.
* Previous experience in managing large and complex RFPs and tenders.
* Strong knowledge of different commercial models
* Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyse data and numbers to provide clarity and influence decisions.
* Advanced level of competency in Office 365/MS Project and particularly Excel skills to enable easy extraction of data in excel and data comparison.
* Hands-on and proactive approach with a positive “can do” attitude and team player.
* Ability to flex communication style and approach to engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
* Ability to explain complex data sets effectively to internal stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Contract
Job function
* Job function
Accounting/Auditing
* Industries
Retail, Food and Beverage Services, and Accounting
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